UTF-8 in decimal

Question

Is representing UTF-8 encoding in decimals even possible? I think only values till 255 would be correct, am I right? As far as I know, we can only represent UTF-8 in hex or binary form.

Answer 1

I think it is possible. Let's look at an example:

The Unicode code point for ∫ is U+222B.

Its UTF-8 encoding is E2 88 AB, in hexadecimal representation. In octal, this would be 342 210 253. In decimal, it would be 226 136 171. That is, if you represent each byte separately.

If you look at the same 3 bytes as a single number, you have E288AB in hexadecimal; 70504253 in octal; and 14846123 in decimal.